The Bridgehampton School has announced that Madeline Grabb is the valedictorian of this year’s graduating class, and Jaden Campbell is the salutatorian.

Educators, parents, students, employers, and community members have been invited to a series of regional meetings hosted by the New York State Board of Regents, which oversees public education, as part of the board’s new review of high school graduation requirements.  

“It’s important, because black people don’t see black people in books,” said Carol Spencer, the owner of a traveling bookstore, “and in the history books they are always slaves.”     

East Hampton School District administrators and board members continued poring over their proposed 2020-21 spending plan on Tuesday, deciding to add some new, one-time expenses for the middle school.     

The John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor is offering Mandarin lessons for children ages 5 to 8 beginning on Saturday.

The New York State Education Department has postponed making a final call on new rules that would give public schools more oversight into the educational offerings of private and parochial schools after thousands of people across the state criticized the proposal.     

The show opens on Friday, Feb. 28, with other performances on Saturday, Feb. 29, at 7 p.m., and on Sunday, March 1, at 2 p.m.

Lily Mongan, a graduate of the Amagansett School, has spent most of her high school career abroad, learning languages and dreaming of one day being accepted at Oxford University in England. Her dream has come true.       

Guild Hall has named the high school competition winners of its annual student art show, which this year had a theme — “made by water” — for the first time.

Tomorrow at 4 p.m. for Black History Month, the library will show “A Ballerina’s Tale,” a documentary about Misty Copeland, the first African-American to be named principal dancer for the American Ballet Theatre.

The pediatric flu season this year is shaping up to be an intense one, with local schools reporting dozens of confirmed cases of sick children being kept at home.

East Hampton School Board members agreed this week that a number of badly needed renovations should be included in the 2020-21 school budget, which the board officially began discussing on Tuesday night.